Wells, Robison Variant, 367 p. Scholastic, 2011. $7. Violence: PG.
As an orphan, Benson Fisher doesn’t have many good things come his
way. So when he is accepted as a
scholarship student at a prestigious boarding school, he thinks life is looking
up. Instead, he finds himself a
prisoner, along with other orphaned teens, in a school with no escape, where
life seems to happen for no reason and with no rules. The ‘students’ have divided themselves into three tribes and
created their own standards for dealing with their reality. Benson, however, will no accept that
there is no way to escape the system and is willing to risk death – his or
anyone else’s – in order to get out.
Will Benson find answers? Maybe the truth is more bizarre than his mind
could ever imagine.
Who knows why I resisted reading this book for so
long. I finally picked it up from
my recent book fair and I am very glad that I did. The story carried me along; I was more than willing to
accept the strange world that Wells created. Happy to see that is a sequel is already out.
EL, MS – ESSENTIAL. Cindy, Library Teacher
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